Final question; is that fuse tucked under the front going to be acceptable as a removable link before I hot glue the terminals in place?
I do know of folks who do use fuses as removable links in the FW category so I can't see this being an issue here. AWS rules state that a switch can also be used in place of a link (http://robotwars101.org/ants/rules.htm) so you are probably going to be OK here.